Why did staff at Florida's Kennedy Space Centre burst into spontaneous cheers as they watched a rocket explode mid-air?

Kairos failed on Wednesday (March 4), as it did on its first two launches. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, ...

Japan's Space One saw its KAIROS rocket self-destruct just 69 seconds after liftoff on March 5, 2026, marking the company's third consecutive launch failure.

A SpaceX rocket test that exploded mid-flight put hundreds of airline passengers in danger and left falling wreckage above Caribbean waters, reported the New York Post. Starship's seventh test ended ...

On January 16, SpaceX conceded that the latest prototype of its enormous Starship spacecraft had “experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly during its ascent burn” — a tongue-in-cheek admission that ...

A SpaceX test flight endangered several packed passenger jets when it unexpectedly exploded over the Caribbean earlier this year, according to newly-released documents from the Federal Aviation ...

The date is January 16, 2025. Commercial airline flights are in the air across the Caribbean in the region around Puerto Rico, Cuba, and surrounding islands. An alert comes in at 5:49 p.m. from air ...

Nearly two months after a fiery explosion scattered debris over the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another Starship rocket on Thursday, only to lose contact minutes into the flight as the ...